Public money

Tenders and procurement

Tender notices as organs of state publish them on National Treasury’s eTender Publication Portal, each with the status the portal itself lists — advertised, closed, awarded, cancelled or withdrawn — and, where the portal’s open-contracting release states them, the supplier awarded, the award value and the contract. A notice is one record however many feeds list it; a tender value, an award value and a contract value are three different figures and are never added together.

Tender notices: 168 166; advertised 2021–2026
Organs of state: 774; buyers named by the portal
Awards published: 4 630; 3 223 suppliers; 1 065 contracts
Awards with a contract: 996; 6 agree with it; 990 do not (885 read as the contract value with extra digits)
Status as at: 11 October 2026; the portal's listing on that date

Available — coverage varies by sourceAward detail exists for awarded notices published since 2025 whose open-contracting release the portal served; the rest are listed as awarded without the supplier. Notices whose organ of state the portal never names are not loaded. Coverage in detail.

12 notices from this organ of state (clear)

HR023/2021/22Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
Appointment of a Service Provider to conduct critical culture conversations within SALGA National and Provincial Offices.
South African Local Government Association · advertised 19 November 2021 · closes 13 December 2021 · Request for Proposal
SALGA/103/2021Closed as published on 11 October 2026
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF SERVICE PROVIDERS TO FORM A PANEL OF RESEARCHERS THAT CONDUCT RESEARCH ON BEHALF OF SALGA
South African Local Government Association · advertised 9 November 2021 · closes 9 December 2021 · Request for Proposal
SALGA/102/2021Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
Request for proposal for the appointment of Travel Management Companies to provide travel management services to SALGA for a period of 48 months
South African Local Government Association · advertised 8 October 2021 · closes 8 November 2021 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
SALGA/101/2021Closed as published on 11 October 2026
APPOINTMENT OF A SERVICE PROVIDER TO ASSIST SALGA IN ANALYZING THE CURRENT LEVELS OF DEBT OWED BY HOUSEHOLDS TO MUNICIPALITIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON INTERVENTIONS/STRATEGIES TO BE CONSIDERED IN WRITING OFF HISTORICAL DEBT OVER 90 DAYS OLD
South African Local Government Association · advertised 7 October 2021 · closes 8 November 2021 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
SALGA/99/2021Cancelled as published on 11 October 2026
SOUTH AFRICAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION (SALGA) HEREBY REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: PROPOSALS OF INNOVATION AND SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE SERVICE DELIVERY WITHIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
South African Local Government Association · advertised 7 October 2021 · closes 13 December 2021 · Gauteng · Expression of interest
SALGA/101/2021Closed as published on 11 October 2026
APPOINTMENT OF A SERVICE PROVIDER TO ASSIST SALGA IN ANALYZING THE CURRENT LEVELS OF DEBT OWED BY HOUSEHOLDS TO MUNICIPALITIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON INTERVENTIONS/STRATEGIES TO BE CONSIDERED IN WRITING OFF HISTORICAL DEBT OVER 90 DAYS OLD
South African Local Government Association · advertised 7 October 2021 · closes 8 November 2021 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
SALGA/101/2021Closed as published on 11 October 2026
APPOINTMENT OF A SERVICE PROVIDER TO ASSIST SALGA IN ANALYZING THE CURRENT LEVELS OF DEBT OWED BY HOUSEHOLDS TO MUNICIPALITIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON INTERVENTIONS/STRATEGIES TO BE CONSIDERED IN WRITING OFF HISTORICAL DEBT OVER 90 DAYS OLD
South African Local Government Association · advertised 7 October 2021 · closes 8 November 2021 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
SALGA/98/2021Awarded as published on 11 October 2026
Request for Proposals for the Appointment of a Service Provider to Supply a Cloud Based Human Capital Management System
South African Local Government Association · advertised 6 August 2021 · closes 20 September 2021 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
SALGA/95/2021Closed as published on 11 October 2026
Request for Proposals for the Appointment of a Service Provider to Conduct Competency Assessments, Pre-Employment Background Screening and Verifications Services
South African Local Government Association · advertised 2 June 2021 · closes 21 June 2021 · Gauteng · Request for Proposal
SALGA/96/2021Closed as published on 11 October 2026
Request for Proposals for the Appointment of an LGSETA Accredited Service Provider to Implement the Multi-learning Stream Accredited Municipal Performance Management Training Programme on Behalf of SALGA
South African Local Government Association · advertised 20 May 2021 · closes 21 June 2021 · Gauteng · Request for Proposal
SALGA/94/2021Closed as published on 11 October 2026
Request for Proposals for the Appointment of a Service Provider to assist SALGA with Short-Term Comprehensive Insurance for the Period of 36 (Thirty-Six) Months
South African Local Government Association · advertised 17 May 2021 · closes 21 June 2021 · National · Request for Information
SALGA/95/2021Closed as published on 11 October 2026
Request for Proposals for the Appointment of a Service Provider to Conduct Competency Assessments, PreEmployment Background Screening and Verifications Services
South African Local Government Association · advertised 14 May 2021 · closes 21 June 2021 · National · Request for Proposal

Organs of state with the most notices

ESKOM13 193
Agricultural Research Council7 237
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa4 895
Transnet SOC Ltd4 481
Public Works3 405
Johannesburg Water2 478
Justice & Constitutional Development2 072
Rand Water1 829
Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality1 827
City of Cape Town1 794
National Research Foundation1 763
Airports Company of South Africa1 642
South African National Roads Agency Soc Limited (SANRAL)1 601
Kwazulu Natal - Transport1 563
Water and Sanitation1 326

Suppliers with the most published awards

Ranked by the number of awards, not by value: award values are not summed anywhere on Mandate SA. Of the 996 awards that have a contract, 990 disagree with it — most often the award reads as the contract value with one to three extra digits, as if a decimal separator were lost at the source — and which figure is right is not established; 3 622 awards have no contract to check against. A supplier is one record per portal supplier id, never merged on a similar name.

How procurement records are kept

Each notice is one listing record of the portal, loaded through the audited pipeline and approved before publication, with the status the portal published on the date shown. Awards and contracts come from the portal’s open-contracting (OCDS) release of a tender, exactly as published: the supplier’s name as printed, the value, the contract reference and period. A refused release means the award was not retrieved, not that none exists. Mandate SA never infers an award, a winner or a payment, and never links a tender to a project on a name.